Clinical Social Worker - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi Health Services

Description

Description

Responsible for managing daily workload allocation and supervising junior staff to ensure adherence to departmental policies. Provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments and care planning for vulnerable clients, coordinates with government and charitable agencies, and advocates for patient rights and long-term care needs. Facilitates safe discharge planning, crisis interventions, and psychoeducation, while maintaining high standards of clinical documentation and confidentiality. Ensures compliance with safety, infection control, and quality assurance protocols. Actively participates in training, professional development, and multidisciplinary collaboration to enhance service delivery and maintain regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Taking Care Management responsibility for vulnerable clients.  This includes the production of comprehensive assessment of client needs, formulization of a social care plan, and the identification of relevant resources to meet the individual's needs. Where appropriate following assessment, co-ordinate the delivery of social care plans and liaising with the appropriate government or charity agencies
• Carrying out initial comprehensive person-centered psychosocial assessments, plan and implement individual strategies of care to meet identified needs in conjunction with the service user, care giver and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate and update the patient file history as required by JCI.
• Acting as an advocate for the patient in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the patient long term care needs
• Consider any legal issues for patients admitted and liase with the admitting authortiy such as police, judicial, prosecution, and provide the necessary reports in order to discharge patient safely.
• Participate in  safe and effective decision making to facilitate a safe, timely discharge from bedded units and community teams.
• Liaising effectively with other agencies including government and charity involved in the care of the individual thereby maintaining and enhancing close professional working relationships
• Working closely with patients/family in directing them to the appropriate resources and support when needed
• Follow up with psychiatric visits from other hospitals to assess the patient case. Recording unusual conditions/limitations, documenting examination time, room number
• Respecting the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing values, spiritual beliefs and customs
• Follow up with approved ER exempted cases of needy patients, and make sure their treatment coverage is processed & directed to the concerned department.
• Promoting and informing an awareness of social care/social work context and anti discriminatory practice to other professionals and facilitate multi-disciplinary working
• Networking and liaise with other professionals and external organizations to provide services to individuals, families and carers and to challenge and question when necessary in the best interests of the user
• Negotiating a diverse and challenging complexity of needs to a range of providers/agencies and to coordinate the organization of care packages and facilitate access to a wide range of resources and information
• Promoting, enabling and empowering individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions
• Maintaining and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice
• Managing frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances, and maintain substantial mental effort through frequent and intense levels of concentration and attention
• Maintaining and enforcing confidential information about patients, staff and others in accordance with professional codes of conduct and relevant legislation
• Acting as an advocate for the patient in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the clients long term care needs.
• Respecting the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing, spiritual beliefs and customs
• Provide crisis interventions as needed.
• Participate in complex discharge planning with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure smooth transition of care for patient and family.
• Participate in the multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss and advocate for the patient and family needs (physical, social and emotional).
• Engage in providing clinically appropriate psychoeducation and direct therapeutic interventions as warranted to address patient and families' psychosocial needs and concern.
  
  Quality & Safety   
   
• Ensuring compliance with all safety and quality control programs and procedures as applicable
• Ensuring compliance with applicable precautions for environmental safety, infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection
• Maintaining and assisting in enforcing the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded
• Complying and ensuring that those directly supervised comply with occupational health and safety at work policies and procedures
• Assisting in the planning and developing policies that guide the service implementation process
• Practicing within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures
• Ensuring that SOP (standard operation procedures) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections
• Education   Delivering and participating in training and continued education sessions as required by hospital policy and Department of Health (DOH) licensure.
• Participating in department programs/committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings
• Assisting and participating in the orientation and training of new employees
• Ensuring appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures
• Maintaining professional development and knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or on-line education units
• Completing and maintaining all regulatory requirements including licensure and certification and other mandatory training within established time frames
• Participating in adequate clinical supervision as required for their professional and technical development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Social Work and Master's Degree in Social Wwork
• Two years of experience after post qualification